Re: [SLUG] ramblings about distributions (red hat 8)

From: Andrew Wyatt (awyatt@fewt.com)
Date: Sun Oct 13 2002 - 21:27:15 EDT


On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 20:44, Bob File wrote:
> On Sunday 13 October 2002 08:03 pm, Andrew Wyatt wrote:
> > Slow??? I haven't seen any other distribution beat it's performance for
> > me. Nautilus is especially speedy on my little P400.
> >
> Yes, dead slow. If your machine is comparable to what I listed, maybe I should
> try it again and pay more attention to the logs and such. I couldn't find
> anything taking up cpu cycles.
>

I have a PII 400 w/ 320MB of ram, and a 12GB IDE drive. Mind you it's
also a notebook, and I have speedstep enabled. I have yet to see a
distribution that has run faster on my computer, including Gentoo. ;-)

-Andrew



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